Making grantees advisers to EPA creates a serious conflict of interest, because grantees want to keep collecting more and more money from the agency.
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HHS set a deadline of last week for grantees to provide evidence that they were complying with the new rules, which also require that all grantees stop providing abortions.
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Miller noted the foundation's grantees often disagree with each other.
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The 2019 grantees applied for funds under the old rules.
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The Fleishhacker Foundation announced the grantees of its Eureka Fellowship Program.
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Many future grantees are unprepared for the accompanying level of scrutiny.
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Patagonia Action Works connects them directly with the company's grassroots grantees.
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Most grantees haven't announced yet whether they will leave the program.
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In theory, the grantees could range from the well-established 350.
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"All of these grantees were given a project end date of June 30, 2018, allowing the grantees an opportunity to adjust their program and plan for an orderly close out," an HHS Department spokesman told Reveal.
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Ford thought of itself as the sort of foundation whose staff did not dictate what its grantees should do but sought out grantees with ideas and methods of their own: that was the social-justice way.
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We ask grantees to provide reporting to us on what they do.
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DACA grantees are attending college, becoming entrepreneurs and fully integrating into society.
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HHS had told grantees last week the changes would take effect immediately.
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States and grantees must comply with federal regulations to receive HHS funding.
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Grantees will also receive Reuters instruction, including reporting and hostile environment training.
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By Thursday evening, grantees received word that, indeed, it was no more.
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The Sundance team allocated 20% of its top-tier passes for grantees.
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States and local grantees were required to maintain and repair the facilities.
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Sometimes the foundations help find appropriate nonprofits to suggest for their circles' grantees.
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Among our grantees, at least, you find a very clear theory of change.
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Accepted grantees will be announced at next year's Google I/O developer conference.
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A full list of AI for Accessibility grantees can be found at TechCrunch.
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"Because of the court's ruling, the four grantees will be able to continue to serve their local communities and to conduct important research," Sean Sherman, an attorney at the Public Citizen Litigation Group, which represented the four grantees, told the Hill.
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"Numerous public officials from both political parties have reinforced the federal government's promise to provide continuity and fair treatment to DACA grantees, and have recognized that DACA grantees have relied on the government's representations in applying for DACA," the lawsuit said.
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Starting in 2018, many of those grantees will see their federal grant funding end.
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The Black Art Futures Fund announced the winning grantees of its inaugural funding cycle.
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Losing funding in 2018, instead of 2020, hurt grantees' ability to conduct that research.
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We were so impressed by CMTAS' vision that they became one of our first grantees.
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Several other lawsuits involving TPPP grantees are still winding their way through the court system.
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That four judges ruled against the administration so far is a good sign for grantees.
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The grantees are nominated by a group of distinguished women curators, writers, critics, and artists.
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WOODSTOCK "Shimmering Substance: Selections from Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantees of the Hudson Valley," group show.
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WOODSTOCK "Shimmering Substance: Selections From Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantees of the Hudson Valley," group show.
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Another example: In June, the grantees submitted their first annual report to the Bezos fund.
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Gates changed course and now requires his grantees to go through a careful vetting process.
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Three judges have already ruled in favor of eight grantees over the past two weeks.
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State, local and tribal government representatives also get an exemption to Pruitt's ban on grantees.
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Those spending the funds (grantees or sub-grantees) must demonstrate to the federal government that the money is being spent for its intended purposes, that it is not being wasted or spent recklessly, and that any vendors or partners follow suit, among other requirements.
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If there is no withdrawal agreement, British universities would no longer be able to host grantees.
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Last summer, the administration ended grants two years early for TPPP grantees, leading to multiple lawsuits.
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Federal judges have since ruled against the Trump administration in three separate cases representing eight grantees.
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At this point, however, there is no direct impact on grantees other than our four clients.
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Ms. Ballmer said that when grantees asked to redirect funds to other areas, she immediately agreed.
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Should a foundation try to guide and steer its grantees, as venture capitalists did with startups?
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EPA grantees, Pruitt said, inevitably are conflicted because of the money they receive from the agency.
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EPA grantees, he said, inevitably are conflicted because of the money they receive from the agency.
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The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program announced its list of 20178 grantees.
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There will be poster presentations from all of the 14 grantees for this call for proposals.
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According to the philanthropic organization, the final roster of grantees reach over 50 countries with their projects.
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The updated clause was sent directly to grantees, but has not been approved by the Commissioners themselves.
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Forty-three percent of public broadcasting station grantees receiving support are considered rural, according to the CPB.
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Each of our grantees running standard shelters is licensed by the respective state for child care services.
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Prior federal grant programs make grantees responsible for paying to operate and maintain facilities that receive grants.
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That responsibility – 90 percent of total cost — is left, by federal statute, to state and local grantees.
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Rather, it sets a standard grantees must meet in order to be eligible for U.S. taxpayer funding.
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Based on what they do with the money, four of the grantees will receive an additional $240,220.
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Grantees need to then study the rules, make policy choices, and build up their own disaster programs.
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As a condition of accepting Title X funds, grantees are prohibited from performing abortions with these funds.
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Few would advocate further delay in putting federal recovery money to good use in Puerto Rico; however, a successful recovery effort requires that all recipients of federal disaster funds understand their new status as grantees (sub-grantees or contractors) and the heightened responsibility that accompanies the big checks.
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GSMA's Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund announced its first round of 9 grantees, 7 of which are from Africa.
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Dot-org gave six of the 30 grantees more than $1 million to spend on advancing their causes.
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Since 22019, grantees of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease have won 11 Nobel Prizes.
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In all, three litigation groups, representing eight grantees, have sued, and won, in their lawsuits against the administration.
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We can only estimate the full extent of overlapping and duplicative information reporting requirements grantees must adhere to.
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Overall real estate investment by Act 22 grantees could reach $1.7 billion by 2024, according to the study.
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Rather than being excluded from service, EPA grantees should be viewed as strong candidates for EPA advisory committees.
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It will focus its budget cuts on the navigator grantees that have fallen short of their enrollment goals.
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Juanita Escobar, one of this year's Magnum Foundation Fund grantees, reveals the secrets of a transforming border town.
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Nearly all of the grantees audited by the Inspector General between 1998 and 2010 had violated grant requirements.
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Oregon and Washington state's health departments will also continue to serve as the sole grantees in those states.
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Then those grantees choose a network of health care providers to work with and help them provide services.
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The national Digital Service, under the proposal, would report bi-annually to Congress on the progress of the grantees.
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None of our grantees is confused at all about why they are going out to do what they do.
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They receive hundreds of applications and typically pick just 15, some of them perennials and others one-time grantees.
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Chaffetz, however, asks the NIH to detail its standards for awarding grants and the vetting and oversight of grantees.
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When Congress created the agency in 1983, it prohibited NED and its grantees from directly aiding foreign political candidates.
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Among the other grantees are the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern in London.
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Instead it merely ends the Clinton-era mandate that Title X grantees must provide a referral for abortion services.
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This would presumably allow federal grantees to provide aid by telephone or through web portals, like online insurance brokers.
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Organizations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood are among its grantees.
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We know that between 1993 and 2010, the Justice Department Inspector General reviewed 22 individual grantees that received VAWA funding.
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The donor records a contribution to DonorsTrust and recommends potential recipients, while grantees receive a donation from DonorsTrust charitable vehicles.
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Six of the 30 grantees have been given more than $1 million, while the average grant is $750,0003, reports Wired.
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Some individual Administration for Children and Families offices have issued guidance to partners and grantees, but more must be done.
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The organization provides financial counseling to its grantees, a trend that is gaining traction among nonprofits that make similar grants.
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And unlike our competitors who fund the Campaign for Accountability, we expect and require our grantees to disclose their funding.
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But it encourages people to join committees and its 26-member board to volunteer their time and decide on grantees collectively.
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"We will be funding the original grantees for the next year under the previous criteria," an administration spokesperson told The Hill.
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The results of these evaluations showed that roughly 85033 in 3 programs implemented by grantees had successfully demonstrated a positive impact.
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Title X grantees must also now separate the finances of any abortion-related services they might have from any other services.
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Now we're waiting to see how a class action lawsuit brought by the remaining grantees against the Trump administration plays out.
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Awardees will join second-year Tulsa Artist Fellows and Arts Integration Grantees which is currently at a critical mass of 60.
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The administration notified more than 80 grantees last summer that their five-year grants would end two years sooner than planned.
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All ten of the most recent grantees are required to develop a commercial business case for developing similar microgrids without grants.
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We're committed to rallying together to support our grantees, communities & front line workers providing critical support during this time of crisis.
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One of those merit-based grantees is a "safe house" called Destiny House, run by the Nevada group Hookers for Jesus.
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The donation will be given to three grantees of UNICEF's Innovation Fund, which connects schools around the world to the internet.
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Grants required 28500,6900 local grantees to adopt user fees to cover long-term operation, maintenance and repair of wastewater treatment plants.
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Grantees are allowed to withdraw from the program, and HHS can move to try and fill their spot, according to HHS.
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We examined contributions made by staff at more than 250 education-reform organizations that receive support from either the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the Walton Family Foundation, finding that Democrats received 99 percent of the 2,600 contributions made by employees at Gates grantees and 87 percent of the 3,85033 made by those at Walton grantees.
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The new guidelines require grantees to focus on "sexual risk avoidance" and "sexual risk reduction" programs — advocacy code for abstinence-only education.
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From 2010 to 2014, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program's 102 grantees reached about half a million youth and funded 41 independent studies.
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That number also came from a review of a compilation of data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ORR's grantees.
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But it's unlikely they will be: The federal government does not have a mechanism for dealing with sexual-misconduct allegations against grantees.
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Why this matters: Federal judges have now ruled in four different cases involving nine TPP grantees that the administration's actions were unlawful.
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Grantees were caught off guard when HHS said it would enforce the rules, even though they are still being challenged in court.
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"Generally, our approach is to give grantees the freedom to experiment and run with the support that we give them," he wrote.
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Allowing religiously affiliated contractors and grantees to discriminate against individuals who don't adhere to an employer's religious tenets, isn't right or fair.
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Or should it trust that grantees, who were actually doing the work in the field, knew best what worked and what didn't?
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The administration ended grants two years earlier than planned for 81 projects last summer, sparking lawsuits from Planned Parenthood and other grantees.
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The devastating impacts of these cuts extend beyond Baltimore City: These cuts will affect 81 grantees across the country, totaling $213.6 million.
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" But, he added, the N.E.A. "is expressly forbidden in its authorizing legislation from interfering with the artistic choices made by its grantees.
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" But, he added, the N.E.A. "is expressly forbidden in its authorizing legislation from interfering with the artistic choices made by its grantees.
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The Bronx Council on the Arts awarded $227,215 to 60 grantees as part of its Community Engagement Grants program [via email announcement].
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READ: Planned Parenthood head said she was ousted in a secret meeting Several grantees have already announced that they can't accept the changes.
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Across nearly every industry, similar checks are performed — of executives and business partners, of borrowers and grantees, and even of political candidates themselves.
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If the Russell Amendment passes, some federal contractors and grantees will claim a right to refuse to hire people in same-sex relationships.
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A federal judge sided with grantees in four of those lawsuits in May, forcing the administration to continue funding their work through 2020.
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Grantees must also prepare for and respond to federal agency reviews, audits, cost disallowances, false claim actions and other oversight or enforcement measures.
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Most of the organizations that will receive funding also participated in the program last year, though 12 new grantees were added, HHS said.
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"We will be funding the original grantees for the next year under the previous criteria" set by the Obama administration, the spokesperson said.
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Most of the organizations that will receive funding also participated in the program last year, though 12 new grantees were added, HHS said.
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That means hundreds of grantees will have to decide in the coming days whether they will follow the rules or exit the program.
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This balance is methodically drawn down by FEMA and awarded to state and local grantees through a necessary series of checks and balances.
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"Grantees and contractors that fail to ensure their employees are checked appropriately should not be allowed to care for these children," said Portman.
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In addition to meetings with activists and grantees in Delhi, Walker was scheduled to visit some village projects that Ford had been funding.
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The other grantees are Mississippi Today; Berkeleyside (in California); NOISE (Nebraska); City Bureau (Chicago); inewsource (San Diego); MLK50 (Memphis); and Underscore (Portland, Ore.).
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One of the grantees is the Alcott Center for Mental Health Services, which has run its Studio Art Program for over two decades.
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To keep the valuable networks and trustworthiness provided by faith-based organizations, USAID developed a religious freedom accommodation policy for faith-based grantees.
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The great spreadsheet of causes lists the tractability of macroeconomic policy as "highly uncertain," which makes finding grantees a bit of a challenge.
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The announcement comes days after a court ordered the Trump administration to continue funding three TPPP grantees through the end of their original grants.
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On Thursday evening, DCCAH sent a letter to all its grantees explaining that the amendment was an "over-correction" and has been officially rescinded.
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Refugees and asylum grantees are eligible for food stamps, but the older brother has refused to apply because he is afraid of being deported.
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What happens next: It's still unclear what will happen to the remaining 72 grantees whose funding ended early, but did not sue the administration.
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The UK is the most successful country for hosting European Research Council grantees, who have won a number of prestigious prizes, including Nobel Prizes.
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Planned Parenthood and other Title X grantees, bent on continuing to misuse tax dollars this way, filed suit claiming the Reagan regulations were unconstitutional.
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In a public response to Jackson's op-ed, the MacArthur Foundation failed to address the point that its 2015 grantees lacked black-led organizations.
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The Trump administration will cut that number to $36.8 million for next year, focusing its cuts on grantees who didn't meet their enrollment numbers.
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Jane Doe's lawyers submitted as a court exhibit an email from Mr. Lloyd regarding the obligations of the contractors ("grantees") who house the minors.
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The rule would redefine HUD's fair housing requirements for its state and local government grantees, thus undercutting initiatives that advance fair housing more aggressively.
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Other grantees selected from CLIR's 2019 applicants include the San Francisco Art Institute, the City University of New York, and the Mattress Factory Museum.
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According to the reports by CIAG grantees, 90% of those served qualified as low incomes, compared to 58% of those served by OGP recipients.
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But largely overlooked in these responses to the domestic gag rule is that the current rules governing Title X grantees represent terrible public policy.
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"Unlike permit grantees, we did not receive news that we were not admitted into the program until we read it in the press," he said.
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There are grantees devoted to the study of US Muslims, such as the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a polling house and research center.
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Another $4.5 million will be paid by the end of July for 20 officer positions, equipment and training for Native grantees, the Justice Department said.
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"Will current TPPP grantees be allowed to continue their projects and if not, what does HHS plan to do with FY 2018 funding?" they asked.
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The proposal would also require Title X grantees have a physical and financial separation from abortion providers, which some argue is targeted at Planned Parenthood.
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The most recent ruling came in June, when Judge Kentanji Brown ruled in favor of 85033 of the grantees that filed a class-action lawsuit.
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It would also block grantees from referring women for abortions or counseling them on abortion as an option, described as a "gag rule" by opponents.
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"We were concerned because you want to let the grantees do their work without worrying about how it impacts the funders," said the foundation official.
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And will the Bezos Earth Fund have a board of advisers who recruit and vet possible grantees, just like Bezos's anti-homelessness charity effort has?
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This year's grantees include long-standing non-profits such as the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida, which received the largest grant of $5.25 million.
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Grantees were told that the administration was looking for something that was a "better fit for its priorities, but those were not specified," Albert said.
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" The new initiative is built off of the company's long-standing policy to donate 1 percent of its proceeds to groups they call their "grantees.
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When he took over at Ford, he was determined to remember that even though he had half a billion dollars a year at his disposal, and his grantees were compelled to beg him for some, and he could say no to any one of them and that would be the end of it, still, it was those grantees and their work that gave his work meaning.
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There are strictly service-oriented grantees such as Muhsen, which provides Braille Qur'ans and sign language interpretation to make mosques more accessible to Muslims with disabilities.
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These policies have stronger, more effective outcomes and cost less, and HUD has been signaling a funding shift toward these for several years to our grantees.
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She said Congress, in creating the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in 2010, required HHS to provide grants based on the grantees' success in preventing teen pregnancy.
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Due to this, PCP calls for the elimination of competitive funding applications entirely to be replaced with baselined, unrestricted general operating support for all DCLA grantees.
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UJA supports a global network of nearly 100 nonprofits and hundreds of grantees that serve New Yorkers of all backgrounds, as well as Jewish communities worldwide.
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Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood on Monday exited the Title X federal funding program rather than comply with a Trump administration rule prohibiting program grantees from performing abortions.
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The reversal would require grantees to comply with anti-discrimination laws passed by Congress, which do not include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics.
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Furthermore, on NYC's Open Data website, there is no indication of the location or size of DCLA grantees, preventing us from truly evaluating progress toward funding equity.
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Navigator grantees expected that their new, smaller budgets for 2018 would follow that August 31 announcement because the 2017 budget was set to run out September 1.
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Here's the gist: What next: Planned Parenthood is asking the judge to order HHS to give current grantees continuation funding until the agency can issue another FOA.
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In addition, HHS circumvented Congress by notifying grantees that their funding would end next year before Congress even started its work on the fiscal 2018 appropriations process.
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It would also eliminate the current mandate that Title X grantees provide referrals for abortion services, while still allowing for neutral, non-directive counseling about elective abortion.
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"Once the commission identifies the most important questions, we are committed to helping grantees obtain the right data to answer them," the executives said in their post.
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With those funds, grantees would be able to provide counseling to children in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement who suffered the trauma of separation.
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And the Department of Health and Human Services gave all Title X grantees until August 19 to submit plans explaining how they would comply with the rule.
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Ensure that Title X family planning funds only go to grantees that provide comprehensive and evidence-based family services and offer the full range of comprehensive methods.
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Grantees said they were given no reason why their grants were cut two years short, a change that will result in about $200 million in lost funds.
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Smithers as "the real godmother of the new style of philanthropy" — a more muscular demeanor in which donors aggressively monitor how their gifts are spent by grantees.
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Pardons, commutations, Medals of Honor and other presidential gifts usually have a formalized process, with layers of staff review before the final list of grantees is chosen.
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The Sundance Institute's 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fund Grantees are Jem Cohen, Kevin Jerome Everson, Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Leilah Weinraub.
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The mayor's office rescinded the controversial amendment, and grantees have received a letter explaining it as an "over-correction" just moments after the censorship push made national headlines.
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Officials at the meeting are widely expected to give grantees more guidance about what the new Title X should look like and how the changes will be enforced.
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" "Once the first round of evaluation results were published, the Office of Adolescent Health transparently shared results and strongly encouraged grantees to shift to the most effective models.
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The bill expands the program to further support behavioral health care, making it possible for grantees of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to participate.
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It appears that grantees will be able to follow funding requirements set by the Obama administration, not new criteria issued under Trump that is focused more on abstinence.
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The spokesperson told the Journal the Gates Foundation will disburse its first round of funding totaling $1.5 million to grantees, but will not participate in future funding rounds.
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Implicit bias affects which prospective grantees they deem risky, credible, trustworthy or innovative, and gives a great advantage to leaders and nonprofits that conform to their cultural norms.
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He worked with the conservative Energy and Environmental Legal Institute last year to sue the EPA, arguing that grantees were too conflicted to legally be allowed to serve.
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Pruitt rolled out the policy in October, arguing that EPA grantees -- generally academics with expertise in areas such as public health and pollution -- have significant conflicts of interests.
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Pruitt rolled out the policy in October, arguing that EPA grantees — generally academics with expertise in areas such as public health and pollution — have significant conflicts of interests.
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Officials plan to award $20 million to grantees that have remained in the program to fill in gaps left by Planned Parenthood and other groups that have left.
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Last week, the 28-year-old royal bride-to-be traveled to Serbia, where she visited two grantees of the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women.
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One complaint nonprofits always have is that big foundations want a clear return on investment, so grantees have to fill out lots of forms and meet lots of metrics.
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"Any grantees that perform, support, or refer for abortion have a choice — disentangle themselves from abortion or fund their activities with privately raised funds," according to the White House.
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Now the Department of Homeland Security has issued guidance suggesting that the DACA program will continue, and that the department will not be taking removal actions against DACA grantees.
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This focus on innovation is critical in that it allows programs to improve and adapt in order to adjust to ever-changing teen culture and to meet grantees' needs.
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Additionally, grantees need to incorporate input from vulnerable communities throughout the life cycle of the mitigation process, including planning and implementation, to ensure that programs meet evolving community needs.
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The Department of Health and Human Services issued a proposed rule changing requirements for the Title X Family Planning grant program, prohibiting grantees from referring patients for abortion services.
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And while the DOJ isn't officially requiring grantees to agree to all ICE requests, it's requiring them to do things that would lead to pretty much the same outcome.
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A Washington arts council reversed a decision on Thursday to make all of its grantees sign new contracts that several arts groups said would leave recipients open to censorship.
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In addition to funding more organizations led by people of color, philanthropy can do this by providing grantees more power to decide how resources are allocated within their organizations.
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For example, several of the grantees in states such as California, Washington and Massachusetts have been able to dedicate the funds to develop their computer science and coding classes.
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The GOP has unsuccessfully sponsored legislation in the past to overhaul how advisory boards are constituted, including to bar EPA grantees, which Republicans see as having conflicts of interest.
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According to a list of grantees posted on HHS' website Friday, seven Planned Parenthood affiliates in eight states are still set to receive funding through 2022 beginning on Monday.
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Denver has created a $300,000 fund to support the program through January 2020 and will grant up to $50,000 per project for needed improvements, with eight grantees selected so far.
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The Black Art Futures Fund, which launched earlier this year and received more than 13 applications for its first round of grants, has given $15,000 to its four inaugural grantees.
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Before this law, federal agencies had 26 different sets of rules controlling commercial use of federally owned IP. Grantees had to negotiate a waiver to take title to any discoveries.
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Over the course of one day, Raj and 50 other grantees walked away with $3.5 million in initial funding, with another $5 million set to be paid out in installments.
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It could ensure that EPA scientists and grantees are allowed to conduct their research without interference, and to discuss it with the public and at professional conferences with their peers.
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Title X grantees are in Washington, D.C., this week meeting with Trump administration officials for a conference, and they're hoping to receive more information about enforcement of the new rules.
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Legislation typically requires grantees to execute sound cost estimates, and to design project worksheets that are jointly approved at all levels of government before money is provided to a community.
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Around the same time that Obria received its Title X grant, the Trump administration finalized a new rule banning grantees in the program from providing or referring patients for abortions.
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At the end of April, all 60 members take a final vote on funding those organizations, and in May, AllInBklyn gives a party where the circle and its grantees celebrate.
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"With deep regret, however, its direct grantees now have no option but to withdraw from the Title X program," Alan Schoenfeld, a lawyer for Planned Parenthood, wrote in the letter.
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Most grantees were not startups, and were liable to become resentful if foundation officers started meddling—though of course they would hide that resentment for fear of losing the grant.
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Montes' lawsuit, which seeks access to the records that show why he was deported, could end up testing the administration's earlier promise that DACA grantees would not be subject to removal.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in June also issued a "domestic gag rule" that prevents Title X grantees from offering a full range of pregnancy-related options.
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Some grantees might feel compelled to refuse the money because the rules banning abortion referrals compromise their missions to be honest with patients and provide them with all options, Salganicoff said.
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By prioritizing college completion at the top and attaching meaningful incentives and accountability metrics for grantees and institutions, we can help students get one step closer to realizing their American dream.
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As a result, CAM grantees reported that the majority of program children remained in parental custody, did not experience maltreatment, and the nearly half of adults successfully completed substance abuse treatment.
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The Ford Foundation is leading an effort of large foundations to give permission to grantees to practice maximum flexibility with funds in order to free up resources for Covid-19 responses.
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The good news is that there is a new generation of foundation officers, many of them white, who are challenging the prevailing notions of risk and transforming their lists of grantees.
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But if the court sides with the Trump administration, the grantees would have to comply with the guidelines issued last week if they decided they still wanted to receive TPPP funding.
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The CIAG grantees served a larger percentage of zip codes primarily inhabited by people of color, people who made below the county's median income, and people living below the poverty line.
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The agency partly focuses on using the funding it can provide to help its grantees — especially smaller and less well known organizations — attract additional funding from other private and public sources.
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When the MacArthur Foundation made a $50 million "big bet" to curb climate change in 2015, all but one of its 10 grants went to prior grantees; feisty newcomers like 350.
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Among this round's grantees is Our Ability, a company started by John Robinson, who was born without complete limbs, and all his life has faced serious challenges getting and keeping a job.
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But there's still a problem: The final spending bill would have to contain language specifically directing it to these grantees, otherwise the administration can use that money for whatever they deem fit.
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Funded by USAID grants and in-kind contributions from grantees, FSCs are locally owned retail farm supply and service businesses that equip and provide training to small-scale farmers and rural entrepreneurs.
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Current federal funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP Program) requires grantees to replicate one of 44 program models independently reviewed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Of the 25 studies Huber references, four interventions in those studies are on the list of proven models that TPP Program grantees can choose to replicate — and many are indeed doing so.
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The FDA has extensive guidelines for the testing and approval of non-latex condoms; and this is where a lot of those super-exciting-sounding Gates Foundation grantees ended up getting stuck.
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Instead, it asks the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop and and enforce better policies throughout federal science agencies, including guidelines that require grantees to submit findings of sexual harassment.
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The Rema Hort Mann Foundation announced its 20183 Emerging Artist Grantees for Los Angeles: Beatriz Cortez, Kelman Duran, Janiva Ellis, Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack, Young Joon Kwak, Walker Tate, and Haena Yoo.
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That includes a consulting mentor for each organization and a series of seminars for all grantees in a given city on topics such as fund-raising, strategic planning, marketing and board development.
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Of those 22, 21 grantees were found to have some form of "violation of grant requirements," which included unauthorized or unallowable expenditures, slipshod record keeping and failure to report in a timely manner.
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The FDA, which doled out $200 million in grants in 143, "does not currently have policies in place specifically addressing funding for grantees with sexual harassment charges," spokesperson Nina Devlin told BuzzFeed News.
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Other grantees at this time include the US Virgin Islands, which also sustained severe damage last year from hurricanes, as well as Texas and Florida, which were struck by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which today funds about 50,000 research projects set standards for prospective grantees to recruit more diverse study populations as a result of the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act.
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If the plan is to merely administer about 5 percent — the standard amount that most foundations currently give away in a year — that would mean distributing about $250 million a year to grantees.
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Regardless of the details of their relationship, they have every reason to portray themselves as friends and partners for the sake of shareholders, grantees, and the millions of Americans watching their every move.
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" Explaining the change to grantees over email, the organization's senior grants officer Heran Sereke-Brhan said that the new language was needed to avoid "artistic expression that has placed CAH at risk of liability.
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And there are grantees that tackle Islam's role in pop culture, such as Halal in the Family, a web series about a fictional Muslim family developed by comedian Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show.
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If his claims about his deportation are validated, his case could have profound implications for the estimated 740,000 DACA grantees in the US as it helps clarify the Trump administration's position on their fate.
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"I am concerned about program integrity issues within the Title X program and that some grantees may not be always using funds in a way that is consistent with the statutory intent," said Rep.
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But conversations she had this week — similar to those described to Vox by other navigators — suggest that the Trump administration will notlet grantees use the funds to cover this week before they're officially allocated.
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When the Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced the permit grantees in September, it came as a surprise to Skip, which had previously received a permit to operate as part of the city's pilot program.
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title X," Alexis McGill Johnson, the acting president and CEO of the organization, said, according to CNN.
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title 10," Alexis McGill, acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, told journalists on a conference call.
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But conversations she had this week — similar to those described to Vox by other navigators — suggest that the Trump administration will not let grantees use the funds to cover this week before they're officially allocated.
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Other grantees, like Hennepin County in Minnesota, will have to look for other funding options outside the federal government to continue a program it says has reduced teen pregnancy rates by 66 percent since 2008.
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" Azar also said he thinks lawmakers who have actually toured the facilities, rather than just talking about them, "have been impressed by our grantees' level of care and the quality services provided to these children.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled in one of those cases Thursday, ordering the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to accept and process applications of four grantees as if they had not been terminated.
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In early July, over 84 grantees throughout the U.S. received notice from the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcing their funding would be cut short by two years.
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It's not clear how the nation's many independent clinics would cope with the new rule, but some of them most likely would follow suit, and those that remain grantees of the program could become overwhelmed.
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title 10," Acting President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson told journalists on a conference call.
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Wednesday, July 25 • The Ivanka-supported Perkins Act, which provides "federal funding to states and discretionary grantees for the improvement of secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs," passed both the House and the Senate.
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Thursday, July 12 • Back on the Hill, Ivanka continued to push for the Perkins Act, which provides "federal funding to states and discretionary grantees for the improvement of secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs."
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The big picture: For a sense of scale, Microsoft said that last year it collected $20 million from the tax to pay for internal carbon neutrality work and fund grantees of its AI for Earth program.
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"Since its founding in December 2015, CZI has worked closely with partners and grantees to announce many grants and investments as well as major financial commitments for CZI's core initiatives," said the spokesperson in an email.
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One of Kapoor's grantees is the International Rescue Committee, which is working with refugees in Uganda - home to more than 1 million people who have fled war in South Sudan - and with stateless Rohingya in Myanmar.
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"My immediate thought was really about all of the incredible work that was in progress with grantees in South Carolina and Oklahoma and Baltimore and Buffalo and Los Angeles and so many other locations," she said.
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"If successful, the lawsuit will ensure that the TPP program maintains its evidence-based principles and that new grantees are not forced to push dangerous [abstinence only until marriage] curriculums," Planned Parenthood said in a statement.
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Context: The Department of Health and Human Services last year sent notices to 81 TPP grantees, informing them that their five-year grants would end two years earlier than originally planned, arguing the program was effective.
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All types of programs, whether carried out by federal employees, contractors or grantees, will benefit from legislation that charges and empowers decision-makers to identify important questions and to use data and evaluation to continuously improve.
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October 20173, 2017: H.R.1117 - To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to submit a report regarding certain plans regarding assistance to applicants and grantees during the response to an emergency or disaster.
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And while NIH grantees are held to a higher standard of diversity, that organization only funds a small percentage of all clinical trials—about 6 percent of trials in 2014, according to an article from JAMA.
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CDC spokesperson Donda Hansen said other oversight efforts are used, including site visits by CDC technical experts and a requirement that most individual GDD overseas grantees, those who receive $300,000 or more, conduct annual independent audits.
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Congress's decision to enshrine the duty to affirmatively further fair housing in the Fair Housing Act makes clear that it is not enough for federal agencies and grantees to only respond to acts of housing discrimination.
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And, resentment aside, if a foundation started telling its grantees what to do, would it then become an initiative-crushing central planner, stifling the very grassroots innovation and practical know-how that it purported to encourage?
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Adopting a government-wide open data structure for all the information grantees reports will alleviate compliance burdens, provide instant insights for grantor agencies and Congress, and enable easy access to data for oversight, analytics and program evaluation.
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An EPA review found $85033,000 in improper payments to grantees, but an OIG review found that nearly $2 million in funds shouldn't have been paid out, either because it was an improper expense or lacked proper documentation.
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Planned Parenthood announced on Monday that it would leave the Title X program, which provides family planning funding for underserved populations, rather than comply with a Trump administration rule barring grantees from performing or referring for abortions.
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At the time of the crash, which occurred in the Huehuetenango region of western Guatemala, they were visiting some of the fund's grantees, Regan E. Ralph, the fund's president and chief executive, said in a telephone interview.
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"Since the issuance of the 2015 final rule, HUD has determined that the current regulations are overly burdensome to both HUD and grantees and are ineffective in helping program participants meet their reporting obligations," the proposal states.
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Even if the administration does ultimately invite grantees to make application for funding, there are growing fears that it will seek, through administrative maneuvering, to prevent Planned Parenthood affiliates and other family planning providers from obtaining funding.
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"This week, ORR instructed grantees to begin scaling back or discontinuing awards for (unaccompanied minors) activities that are not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation," Stauffer said Wednesday.
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Here are the remainder of the grantees (descriptions are from Microsoft): The image up top, by the way, is from iTherapy's InnerVoice, an app that provides AI-powered descriptions of images taken by kids who have trouble communicating.
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Diane Foley, deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Population Affairs, made the announcement in an evening email to grantees on Monday just as many had arrived in Washington, D.C. for a multi-day meeting with administration staffers.
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" COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT "The Budget eliminates the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) because it constitutes a small portion of the funding these grantees receive, and funds are not directly tied to performance, which limits incentives for innovation.
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title X," Alexis McGill Johnson, the acting president and CEO of the organization, said in a phone call with reporters.
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Although the Obama-era regulations make six hours per day, and 180 days per year, the new minimum expectation for Head Start services, they also offer flexibility for Head Start grantees to propose alternative schedules tailored to local needs.
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That's left some longing for more direct interactions with Bezos's team, which can sometimes be unresponsive to their outreach, sources say, and hasn't seized on some open invitations from multiple grantees to their homeless shelters (which isn't terribly uncommon).
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"The Ohio Department of Health has at least 150 other sub-grantees and contractors for the affected grants and projects addressing such issues as new born babies, infant mortality, expectant mothers, violence against women, and minority HIV/AIDS," the statement said.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health recently notified 81 grantees that it would be discontinuing Obama-era funding under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program (TPP) — which helps educate teenagers on how to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
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Sadly, this is life for vulnerable immigrants under Trump, whether they are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals grantees living under a cloud of anxiety about their future, the families of undocumented workers arrested in mass immigration raids, or potential asylum seekers.
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Vidal, who was recruited by Puerto Rico's government after running a similar program in Chile, says the strongest applications that Parallel 18 receives tend to be from outside Puerto Rico, and that just 19 of 64 grantees so far are locals.
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Both of these bills intend to help patients by holding hospitals accountable for making sure patients see savings on their prescriptions, while simultaneously allowing truly vulnerable rural hospitals and grantees to continue participating in the program as they always have.
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In a letter sent Monday to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority said it would withdraw from the Title X family planning grant program rather than follow new rules banning grantees from referring women for abortions.
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Rising HIV rates On Tuesday, John announced the strategy and grantees of another recently announced fund to support key populations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, one of only two regions globally where the HIV epidemic continues to grow rapidly.
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Some grantees are now blaming the government for their own actions -- having chosen to accept the grant while failing to comply with the regulations that accompany it -- and they are abandoning their obligations to serve their patients under the program.
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Mr. Shah, 43, will be the first Indian-American to lead the Rockefeller Foundation, which has gained stature in recent years through some prominent projects but has sometimes been criticized as being more interested in its publicity than its grantees.
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CDBG-DR has become an indispensable tool in the federal government's disaster recovery arsenal: As of June 28503, the CDBG-DR Portfolio includes 22019 grants totaling $89.7 billion to 58 grantees, including 30 states and territories and 28 local governments.
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"As of Monday ... grantees have received no update on when they should expect to receive this essential funding," the Democrats wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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"The Ohio Department of Health has at least 150 other sub-grantees and contractors for the affected grants and projects addressing such issues as newborn babies, infant mortality, expectant mothers, violence against women, and minority HIV/AIDS," the statement said.
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Democrats have collectively expanded the scope of government authority but have been forced to implement their initiatives in cooperation with the private sector, by relying upon market competition and tax incentives, and by decentralizing services to states, localities, contractors, and grantees.
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On Friday, however, HHS gave current TPPP grantees the opportunity to reapply for the grants and compete with new organizations for funding — but only if the organizations make huge changes to their programs to focus on detailed abstinence and "sexual risk reduction" strategies.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Tuesday the Black Art Futures Fund (BAFF), a young organization working to support small cultural groups focused on supporting the work of artists of African descent, announced the winning grantees for its inaugural funding cycle.
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The current rule also allows the secretary of Health and Human Services to delay full implementation of the full-day requirement until Congress appropriates enough funding to allow all Head Start grantees to meet it without reducing the number of children served.
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Additionally, these new regulations will ensure that language included in the annual appropriations bill I oversee provides protection to victims of child abuse, child molestation, incest, rape, and intimate partner violence which will be meaningfully and vigorously enforced by all Title X grantees.
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Steve Russell (R-Okla.) successfully offered, late at night and with very limited debate, an amendment that would require every federal agency to allow religiously affiliated contractors and grantees (including large institutions like hospitals and universities) to discriminate in hiring with taxpayer funds.
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In fact, it was a GMU faculty member and Nobel Laureate in economics, James McGill Buchanan, who taught Koch and his grantees that what Buchanan called a "genuine revolution in constitutional structure" would be needed to control citizens' appetites for government spending.
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A navigator grantee, for example, who only hit 30 percent of its enrollment goal this year will get just 30 percent of its expected budget for next year (no grantees will be defunded entirely, with a floor of $10,33 for all participants).
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There are several worthy accomplishments DCLA did highlight in August: The addition of the Weeksville Heritage Center into the "Cultural Institutions Group" (CIG), the increased funding for the 900+ Cultural Development Fund (CDF) grantees, and the creation of Diversity Plans by the CIG institutions.
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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, physician Priscilla Chan, are staking out aggressive positions as philanthropists in contentious areas like education, affordable housing and criminal justice, according to an Axios analysis of public disclosures, press reports and statements provided by grantees of their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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It also noted that the program, which includes support for original research projects, could in fact be ended midway because the same thing had been done to abstinence grantees back in 2010, when Congress passed the legislation that created the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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Azar said "a review and comprehensive audit of multiple data sets" by HHS and the Department of Homeland Security "has identified under 3,000 children in total, including approximately 100 children under the age of 5" in the care of Office of Refugee Resettlement-funded grantees.
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Other grantees listed on the tax filing included the Central Park Conservancy, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the Police Athletic League, the Puppy Jake Foundation and the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, where Mr. Trump's son Barron was a student until last year.
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LSC, which doles out grants to nonprofits but does not directly provide legal services, said the boost in funding would help its 132 grantees "assist low-income clients facing job losses, evictions and other problems stemming from the pandemic," in a statement on Thursday.
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"Using the PPHF as a piggy bank, even for important health programs, will result in major cuts to state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments, as well as other grantees working at the local level," the Democrats wrote in a letter to Senate leadership.
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Kalia Abiade, who as director of programs is a key gatekeeper at Pillars, said the selection of grantees isn't just about finding unique, well-run nonprofits, but gauging how the organizations fit together as a whole, a showcase of the most groundbreaking Muslim initiatives in the nation.
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The rule essentially gives two options to Planned Parenthood and other Title X grantees that perform abortions: They can stop offering or referring for the service, or they can stop accepting Title X money, potentially compromising their ability to offer family planning services to low-income patients.
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Here are the ten grantees besides ObjectiveEd (descriptions provided by Microsoft, as I wasn't able to investigate each one, but may in the future): The grants will take the form of Azure credits and/or cash for immediate needs like user studies and keeping the lights on.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — In 2015, the Obama administration, in one of its major arts policy achievements, announced a three-year $3 million grant to the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), one of six grantees of the ArtPlace America Community Development Investments program.
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A navigator grantee, for example, who only hit 30 percent of its enrollment goal this year will get just 30 percent of its expected budget for next year (no grantees will be defunded entirely — the first HHS official said they'd set a floor of $10,000 for all participants).
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Let's consider two of the biggest grantees in this year's awards: The national KIPP charter network got $6900 million over five years to create 2628 new schools and Texas-based IDEA network got $28503 million over the same time period to be used to add new schools and expand grades.
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The administration has laid out a plan to dramatically remake the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program by requiring grantees to push ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage (which the administration labels "sexual risk avoidance") approaches into every program that gets funding, instead of effective programs that have been proven to reduce unintended pregnancy.
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"We are extremely disappointed that the House Republican Leadership has refused to allow a debate and vote on a bipartisan amendment to strike a discriminatory, harmful provision that undercuts protections for LGBT employees of federal contractors and grantees," David Stacy, the group's government affairs director, said in a written statement.
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By law, Title X funding is supposed to help grantees provide low-income and other underserved patients with "a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and services" — and even under President Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services has said that this range should include hormonal contraception.
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Eighty-three percent of grantees were in states that lost 20 percent or less of their participating clinics after the rule, while none of the six states in which all participating clinics dropped out of the program after the rule change received any of the reassigned funds, according to the report.
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The letter asks NIH, NSF, USDA, DOE, and NASA to report: how many cases of sexual harassment or assault have actually been investigated at their agencies; what they do when they receive complaints about a grantee; and whether they require grantees to inform them of allegations of sexual harassment or gender discrimination.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Just days after the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) issued an eleventh-hour amendment on its already-signed contracts with grantees that prohibited "lewd, lascivious, vulgar, overtly political, and/or excessively violent" projects from being funded, Mayor Muriel Bowser's office rescinded the controversial guidelines.
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Because Monday's announcement arrived on the eve of a multi-day meeting for Title X grantees with the Office of Population Affairs in Washington, D.C., some may be waiting for the meeting to conclude before they make a decision about whether to keep the grant money or comply with the new rules.
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In fact, with no full-time staff working exclusively on the billion-dollar project, Bezos has largely outsourced his non-legal interactions with his charities to a trade group, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, which has organized a few calls and meetings at conferences between various grantees, the nonprofits told Recode.
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"If the seven Planned Parenthood direct grantees insist on providing abortion referrals even within a federally funded program, and feel so strongly that they would withdraw from the program and the public they serve, that is their own choice, not a consequence of the Rule," wrote Jaynie Lilley, a lawyer for HHS.
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"This week, ORR instructed grantees to begin scaling back or discontinuing awards for (unaccompanied minors) activities that are not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation," Evelyn Stauffer, spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, said in a statement.
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"A lot of these grantees are doing a lot of soul-searching, to figure out what comes next in this period of uncertainty and how to keep their network strong either in the program or out of the program, with funding or without funding," said Sandusky, of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
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Friday's funding announcement compares the risk of teen sex to "drug use" or "failing to use a seatbelt," and requires grantees to replicate one of two kinds of programs in order to receive funding: the first focusing on "sexual risk avoidance" and the second on "sexual risk reduction," advocacy terms that favor abstinence-oriented approaches to sex ed.
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"If not quickly reversed, ICE's arrest of a young immigrant who was granted deferred action could make a travesty of the federal government's promises to DACA grantees across the country, who came to the U.S. as children and are an integral part of our communities," said Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project.
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A lawyer for Planned Parenthood wrote that direct Title X grantees "sought to preserve their ability to immediately resume providing services under the Title X program should this Court order the requested emergency relief," but that HHS had denied their requests to remain in the program and use outside funding to provide services blocked by the rule as inconsistent with department guidance.
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But, no matter how often he checked himself, he knew that in the end it was almost impossible for a grant-maker to be sure that he was doing his job well, because there was no one to tell him the truth: his grantees had to stay on his good side, and his colleagues didn't know any better than he did.
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Casa Ruby, for example, is a drop-in community center offering a safe space, housing and housing referrals, legal services, counseling and more to empower trans people in Washington, D.C. Our grantees, like Casa Ruby, are often led by people who come from the communities they serve, which means they are intimately familiar with the problems they're trying to solve.
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The administration is shifting the focus of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) more toward abstinence education, and groups will have to get onboard if they want to continue receiving financial support from the federal government For some grantees, these requirements could clash with laws in their states, and with the approaches they have decided are best suited to addressing teen pregnancy rates in their communities.
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During a call with reporters, Azar did not provide an exact number of children separated from families, but said that "a review and comprehensive audit of multiple data sets" undertaken by HHS and the Department of Homeland Security indicated that fewer than 3,000 total children, including an estimated 100 under the age of 5, are in the care of Office of Refugee Resettlement-funded grantees.
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In most of the discretionary grant processes GAO examined before Chao took office, DOT's technical staff would weed out applications that didn't meet basic eligibility criteria and give each project an overall score, after which a senior review team would make a list of recommended grantees that present the biggest return on the taxpayer investment, based on the department's priorities, according to the GAO.
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But it wasn't until the aftermath of 9/11, with its heightened fear of airborne biological attacks, that indoor-air research finally attracted some funding—from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, one of the largest private grant-making nonprofits in the U.S. (Among its many grantees is a podcast I produce.) Through a program managed by Paula Olsiewski, a biochemist by training, Sloan began supporting research into H.V.A.C. filtration systems.
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To identify the pool of potentially eligible children under 21997, Meekins told reporters that they had gathered information from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), communicated with federal grantees who run facilities where children are held, and completed a manual review of the files of more than 11,800 children under the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the office within HHS that handles the detention of immigrant children.
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"More generally, this concern is not limited to the intelligence community but will have a chilling effect that extends to employees, contractors, and grantees in other parts of the government, who might not consider it worth the effort and potential impact on themselves to report suspected wrongdoing if they think that their efforts to disclose information will be for naught or, worse, that they risk adverse consequences for coming forward when they see something they think is wrong," they added.
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The policy in question was put forth by former EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittOvernight Energy: House stimulus aims to stem airline pollution | Environmental measures become sticking point in Senate talks | Progressives propose T 'green stimulus' Court sides with scientists on EPA policy barring grantees from serving on agency boards Overnight Energy: Senate energy bill stalled amid amendment fight | Coronavirus, oil prices drive market meltdown | Green groups say Dem climate plan doesn't go far enough MORE, blocking scientists from serving on the agency's esteemed Science Advisory Board (SAB).
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The policy in question was put forth by former EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittOvernight Energy: House stimulus aims to stem airline pollution | Environmental measures become sticking point in Senate talks | Progressives propose T 'green stimulus' Court sides with scientists on EPA policy barring grantees from serving on agency boards Overnight Energy: Senate energy bill stalled amid amendment fight | Coronavirus, oil prices drive market meltdown | Green groups say Dem climate plan doesn't go far enough MORE, blocking scientists from serving on the agency's esteemed Science Advisory Board (SAB).
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Core responsibilities include: (1) working collaboratively with others to develop, implement and manage communications for and about the Foundation's initiatives that advance progress toward a Culture of Health and achieving health equity; (2) initiating, interpreting, and synthesizing communications, policy, and programmatic research to help the Foundation develop messaging that engages and activates audiences across political, ideological, and cultural perspectives; and(3) leading teams of communications professionals, including external firms and contractors, who will help amplify the voice of the Foundation and our grantees by communicating about research, programs and outcomes to key stakeholders.
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Read Joe Concha's story here From The Hill's opinion pages: Building a lasting off-ramp for strong, sound banks, by Lawrence Harris, former chief economist of the SEC and executive director of the Financial Economists Roundtable Attorney General Sessions leads the charge against LGBT rights, by Ian Thompson, American Civil Liberties Union ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS: NIH emails reveal divisions over renewal of gun research program (Science Magazine) SEC names J.P. Morgan executive as top regulator of exchanges (The Wall Street Journal) The federal lawmakers who regulate Amazon are begging the company to move to their home states (Recode) Proposal to ban EPA grantees from agency science advisory boards stirs controversy (E&E News) White House to test federal-local sharing of drone regulation (The Wall Street Journal) View the discussion thread.
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